The Purge of the Emperor's Favorite

The fall of Cleander was accompanied by yet another round of purges and anyone with a close connection to the dead Chamberlain found themselves added to the Emperor's prescription list rather than being asked to help draw them up. The few active enemies of the Imperial Chamberlin left alive seized the opportunity the food shortages presented and organized a very public display against the Emperor's favorite, if the one place the Emperor was bound to hear about it in the circus Maximus. A group of children were given anti-Cleander banners and were snuck down onto the field where they began shoutingAnti-Cleander chants. Before too long they had worked themselves into a frenzy and marched out of the circusMaximus towards